Decay and ruin have had a bad press. They can be fascinating, as visitors to the Purton Ships Graveyard by the River Severn in Gloucestershire have attested to.
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The MS World Discoverer cruise ship lies beside a tourist beach in the Solomon Island archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. She s lain there for more than 20 years.
‘Ticking Ecological Time Bombs’: Thousands of Sunken WWII Ships Rusting at Bottom of Pacific. Earthquakes, storm surges and other natural disasters could mean environmental catastrophe if oil and other hazardous material spill out. Soon after the Solomon Islands was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude.